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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Marie's background?
(a) French peasant.
(b) French middle class.
(c) English farmer.
(d) Italian peasant.

2. Who does the Count introduce?
(a) His mother.
(b) His daughter-in-law.
(c) His sister.
(d) His daughter.

3. Why does the Colonel decide to go ahead with the transport of Bush and Hornblower despite Bush's injuries?
(a) They want to execute him on Bastille Day.
(b) The Colonel thinks traveling is no worse as languishing in a prison.
(c) They have a physician to travel with them.
(d) Bush is scheduled for execution so if he dies on the journey, it does not matter.

4. Who is commanding the English fleet that is attacking in the harbor?
(a) Captain Stone.
(b) Captain Aubrey.
(c) Admiral Nelson.
(d) Admiral Leighton.

5. What do the men encounter downriver?
(a) One of the English spies that is following them.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) A patrol of ten mercenaries.
(d) A patrol of ten French soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower do in the reading room?

2. Who shares the interviewer's lack of concern for the welfare of those under his supervision?

3. What does Hornblower observe about Marie's build?

4. Who attends to Bush's stump?

5. Why is the coach stopped frequently?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Colonel Caillard come to Rosas prison? What is Caillard like as a man? How do you think Hornblower felt about the man?

2. How does Hornblower feel when preparing for bed with the other prisoners? How does he feel about his pending execution? Do you think he is a coward that he worries about his possible reaction at the time of the execution?

3. Where and when is Hornblower when the book opens?

4. What does Hornblower do after the men are dried and clothed and Bush is put to bed? What does the Count tell Hornblower?

5. How does the Spanish warden help Hornblower? Why do you think he would do that? Do you think that makes him a traitor to his country?

6. How does Hornblower's opinion of Marie's appearance change as he stays in the house? What might this say about appearances in general?

7. What happens that slows down the travel?

8. What are mostly in Hornblower's thoughts as he waits his future?

9. In what shape is Bush at the beginning of Chapter 5? What does the doctor tell Caillard? What does Hornblower say?

10. What happens to the coach that stops travel for a while?

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